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The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by pe...

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spelling oapen-20.500.12657-300742021-11-09T09:24:18Z Resonance of Unseen Things Lepselter, Susan Anthropology Alien abduction Captivity narrative Unidentified flying object The Resonance of Unseen Things offers an ethnographic meditation on the “uncanny” persistence and cultural freight of conspiracy theory. The project is a reading of conspiracy theory as an index of a certain strain of late 20th-century American despondency and malaise, especially as understood by people experiencing downward social mobility. Written by a cultural anthropologist with a literary background, this deeply interdisciplinary book focuses on the enduring American preoccupation with captivity in a rapidly transforming world. Captivity is a trope that appears in both ordinary and fantastic iterations here, and Susan Lepselter shows how multiple troubled histories—of race, class, gender, and power—become compressed into stories of uncanny memory. 2018-05-18 23:55 2020-03-12 03:00:29 2020-04-01T12:44:24Z 2020-04-01T12:44:24Z 2016-03-01 book 650026 OCN: 1166426491 9780472900657 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30074 eng application/pdf n/a 650026.pdf University of Michigan Press 10.3998/mpub.7172850 10.3998/mpub.7172850 e07ce9b5-7a46-4096-8f0c-bc1920e3d889 b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9780472900657 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Ann Arbor 103494 KU Round 2 608301 Knowledge Unlatched open access
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